2014 Baseball Roster
Roster
Jake Powers
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 170
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- St. Charles, Mo.
2011: Made 11 relief appearances and started one game in his first season with the Bears, going 1-0 with a 5.20 ERA and 28 strikeouts in 27.2 innings...Opened season with 10 scoreless innings and did not allow and earned run until his fourth appearance...Struck out seven in 5.2 innings of shutout relief at Arkansas State (March 9)...Fanned six in 4.1 innings in his only start, March 15 against SEMO...Fired 3.2 innings of two-hit relief for a win at Missouri (April 27)...Pitched for the Northwoods League[apos]s Waterloo Bucks in the summer, appearing in 13 game with 12 starts and going 3-4 with a 3.79 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 76.0 innings.
Background: Powers spent the Fall 2009 semester at Illinois-Chicago before transferring to MSU in January 2010...Set Francis Howell Central records for strikeouts (94), ERA (1.87) and Ks/7 innings (10.97) as a senior...Earned first-team all-state, all-conference and all-metro honors and was named a TPX All-American...Named second-team all-conference as a junior, and team finished third in state his sophomore year...Played with several MSU Bears for Sedalia Bombers during the summer of 2010, going 7-2 with a 2.07 ERA and 46 strikeouts in 40.2 innings.
Personal: Jacob R. Powers is the son of Robert and Debbie Powers...Born August 17, 1990, in St. Charles, Mo...Studying criminology at Missouri State.
